Krtek's journey to Marquetta

This travel bug is attatched to the familiar Czech character, Krtek the Mole, who's delighted children in cartoons for many years.  My daughter loves him and while traveling in Czech I found this keytag to send on a journey, via geocaches, with hopes he'll make his way to her.  Please move him along towards Massachusetts, USA for us to hopefully discover in a cache close to our home near Northfield, MA someday! 

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Travel bug on a keyring attached to a rubber plastic Krtek holding a blue watering can and offering fellow geocaches and travelers a flower and a smile  :)

Krtek was first seen in 1956 in Prague, when Miler wanted to create a children's cartoon about how flax is processed. He wanted a strong Disney influence to the cartoon by choosing an animal for the leading role, and decided to pick a mole after stumbling over a molehill during a walk. The first film called "Jak krtek ke kalhotkám přišel" ("How the mole got his trousers") was released in 1956. Production for further episodes started in 1963 and since then, around 50 episodes have been created.

The first episode of the cartoon was narrated, but Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-figurative exclamations in order to express the mole's feelings and world perception. They also became the bottleneck of the creation process as they were the ones who got to see the whole film first, thus Miler was able to decide whether the message of the movie was able to get to children or not.

“It took me a long time to realize it, but when I draw Krtek, I was drawing myself" —Zdeněk Miler